9:23 PM,
Oct. 11, 2013

Boyd King, an Army veteran who lives on the Far Southside, had been vocal in the past against any effort to expand a gunfire ban in Marion County.

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The recent expansion of an Indianapolis police tax district came with a surprising side effect: It also would ban target practice, hunting and random shooting of guns in outer parts of Marion County.

This afternoon, Mayor Greg Ballard's administration sought to neutralize that change before it takes effect Jan. 1. His office issued a notice, signed by Public Safety Director Troy Riggs, that grants people blanket permission to use their firearms in outlying parts of the county where it long has been legal.

The move ended a scramble by the mayor's office to fix an inadvertent (and potentially ...